10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
...The leading explanation at the time for how briny liquid water was sloshing around below Ceres’ surface was put down ...area and an upsurge of briny water was driven to the surface by a small amount of gas such as water vapour, methane or ammonia. Fast ...
08 January 2020
New technique on finding oxygen could help find alien life
... to be weak say the team in their paper. Though other telescopes, such as Hubble, can help detect water vapour in different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum to complement these studies. The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to be launched...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... effect involves absorption and re-emission of outgoing infrared radiation by a planet’s atmosphere. On Earth, carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapour (H2O) are the two main greenhouse gases. Together, they raise Earth’s surface temperature by about...
13 December 2017
Bright spots suggest Ceres is surprisingly active
...salt-rich material, that was likely once mixed in water "Previous research has shown that the bright material ...fractured surface. The upsurge of briny water driven to the surface by a small amount of gas such as water vapour, methane or ammonia – in ...
07 July 2017
Unexpected large methanol find near Enceladus
... on Enceladus were shooting geyser-like supersonic jets of water vapour, other gases, and ice particles into the space around... System with ongoing deep-seated geological activity. The jets of water obviously need to come from somewhere, so it has also...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... one percent of this and consider it in terms, not of seats to space, but of fuel burned (and thus emissions of water vapour and carbon dioxide). Then, at the technological level represented by today’s Crew Dragon, it would still be permissible for...
